JET SET RADIOOOOOOOOOOOO
February 7, 2016 4:57 PM Subscribe
I am the target market for this.
posted by sleeping bear at 5:31 PM on February 7, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by sleeping bear at 5:31 PM on February 7, 2016 [1 favorite]
Hey annoyance, someone answered your question! It only took us slightly more than a decade.
posted by ill3 at 7:14 PM on February 7, 2016 [5 favorites]
posted by ill3 at 7:14 PM on February 7, 2016 [5 favorites]
So. Years ago, back in high school when JSR was still pretty new, I found myself poking around in the files of a copy of the game I'd downloaded off the back of a truck when I discovered that the music tracks were stored in a way that enabled the in-game mixing by using pre-prepared transition mixes between certain tracks. I started mapping out these transitions on a piece of paper, and eventually figured out the minimum number of actual cuts I'd need to use to get the whole soundtrack into one long nonstop mix. It is one of my great regrets that I have lost this CD, because it turns out it is awesome to have a long nonstop mix of the Jet Set Radio soundtrack.
One other interesting discovery while poking around in these files, though, was a mysterious file with the three-letter code "DUN." The use of a three-letter code for a song on the soundtrack wasn't at all unique — rather, it was a song I'd never once heard in-game, but that I decided to put into the nonstop mix anyway, because there was at least a transition made for it.
Fast forward to over a decade later, and here I am listening to Jet Set Radio Live and SUDDENLY FROM NOWHERE I hear a very familiar tune: "Dunny Boy Williamson Show," by Deavid Soul, says the web page, and in an instant, the world is whole again.
posted by DoctorFedora at 7:26 PM on February 7, 2016 [19 favorites]
One other interesting discovery while poking around in these files, though, was a mysterious file with the three-letter code "DUN." The use of a three-letter code for a song on the soundtrack wasn't at all unique — rather, it was a song I'd never once heard in-game, but that I decided to put into the nonstop mix anyway, because there was at least a transition made for it.
Fast forward to over a decade later, and here I am listening to Jet Set Radio Live and SUDDENLY FROM NOWHERE I hear a very familiar tune: "Dunny Boy Williamson Show," by Deavid Soul, says the web page, and in an instant, the world is whole again.
posted by DoctorFedora at 7:26 PM on February 7, 2016 [19 favorites]
I love this station and I'm older than the second cousin of dirt.
posted by damnitkage at 7:36 PM on February 7, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by damnitkage at 7:36 PM on February 7, 2016 [4 favorites]
This has brought an immense amount of joy to my life.
Did you know there's a JSR re-release for the (at the very least) PSVita? I do! Because I have it and I play it!
posted by aurynn at 7:54 PM on February 7, 2016
Did you know there's a JSR re-release for the (at the very least) PSVita? I do! Because I have it and I play it!
posted by aurynn at 7:54 PM on February 7, 2016
YES I'm cooking for my son and his wife. It's his thirtieth birthday. Pour berries into a bowl add milk of two months ago
-- it's moldy mom, isn't it?
I don't give a flying fuck though! SHUT UP AND EAT
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 8:17 PM on February 7, 2016 [3 favorites]
-- it's moldy mom, isn't it?
I don't give a flying fuck though! SHUT UP AND EAT
posted by the uncomplicated soups of my childhood at 8:17 PM on February 7, 2016 [3 favorites]
Oh man, now I have a radio station to keep me awake at work!
Now all we need is a radio station that plays Katamari Damacy music.
posted by happyroach at 8:50 PM on February 7, 2016 [5 favorites]
Now all we need is a radio station that plays Katamari Damacy music.
posted by happyroach at 8:50 PM on February 7, 2016 [5 favorites]
SQUEEEEEEEEEEEE
(No, really. Squee.)
posted by andreaazure at 8:55 PM on February 7, 2016 [1 favorite]
(No, really. Squee.)
posted by andreaazure at 8:55 PM on February 7, 2016 [1 favorite]
This seems like a good place to link one of my favorite mashup albums: Jet Ill Radio -- Jet Set Radio + Beastie Boys.
posted by rifflesby at 9:58 PM on February 7, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by rifflesby at 9:58 PM on February 7, 2016 [4 favorites]
Did you know there's a JSR re-release for the (at the very least) PSVita? I do! Because I have it and I play it!
And the Steam download is about $3.
posted by rh at 10:30 PM on February 7, 2016
And the Steam download is about $3.
posted by rh at 10:30 PM on February 7, 2016
Members of the Golden Rhino, we have found that record.
posted by Apocryphon at 12:00 AM on February 8, 2016
posted by Apocryphon at 12:00 AM on February 8, 2016
what genre is this?
Jet Set Radio. (Jet Grind Radio for us here in North America.)
As far as I’m concerned that is the genre.
posted by bongo_x at 12:03 AM on February 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
Jet Set Radio. (Jet Grind Radio for us here in North America.)
As far as I’m concerned that is the genre.
posted by bongo_x at 12:03 AM on February 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
Yeah, for better or for worse, "Jet Set Radio" is basically the best I've ever been able to do in trying to pin down the genre of the Jet Set Radio soundtrack. It is its own thing.
posted by DoctorFedora at 1:17 AM on February 8, 2016
posted by DoctorFedora at 1:17 AM on February 8, 2016
Yeah, for better or for worse, "Jet Set Radio" is basically the best I've ever been able to do in trying to pin down the genre of the Jet Set Radio soundtrack. It is its own thing.
as much as I miss the later-JSRF, the original soundtrack basically cannot be duplicated.
semi-brag I had an illegitimate disc so I could play the JDM version on my Dreamcast?
posted by dorian at 2:02 AM on February 8, 2016
as much as I miss the later-JSRF, the original soundtrack basically cannot be duplicated.
semi-brag I had an illegitimate disc so I could play the JDM version on my Dreamcast?
posted by dorian at 2:02 AM on February 8, 2016
Oh good, it does actually play more than just stuff from the soundtracks of Jet Set Radio, Jet Set Radio Future, and Ollie King. And Deavid Soul's album "Sparkling Music". Wish I could get a track list so I could expand my JSR playlist; it is just about impossible to be unhappy while listening to this stuff. When I checked it out earlier it just played a couple songs off the JSR soundtrack and hung.
Also relevant: Hideki Naganuma has a soundcloud, where you can download a bunch of stuff from his video game soundtracks, most of which are generally silly in much the same way as his work for JSR. https://soundcloud.com/hideki-naganuma
And tangentially: if you have played JSR but haven't played JSRF, find a copy of it and either an Xbox or a 360. It is pretty much a remix of JSR with all the charm and with a less terrible camera. And sadly with some bad slowdown on two levels in the 360 but you can't have everything.
posted by egypturnash at 2:19 AM on February 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
Also relevant: Hideki Naganuma has a soundcloud, where you can download a bunch of stuff from his video game soundtracks, most of which are generally silly in much the same way as his work for JSR. https://soundcloud.com/hideki-naganuma
And tangentially: if you have played JSR but haven't played JSRF, find a copy of it and either an Xbox or a 360. It is pretty much a remix of JSR with all the charm and with a less terrible camera. And sadly with some bad slowdown on two levels in the 360 but you can't have everything.
posted by egypturnash at 2:19 AM on February 8, 2016 [2 favorites]
I've been listening to this for about a week now and it remains amazingly joyful, upbeat, glad-to-be-alive music. Plus Professor K, and occasional takeovers from the Noise Tanks. Yo!
Best find so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIaYubEnFY
Bonus: Ollie King soundtrack on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/OllieKingOST
posted by Hogshead at 4:06 AM on February 8, 2016
Best find so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGIaYubEnFY
Bonus: Ollie King soundtrack on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/OllieKingOST
posted by Hogshead at 4:06 AM on February 8, 2016
I am so happy right now in my drab, gray office. File this under "things I had forgotten I lost, all those years ago, when I packed away my dreams Dreamcast."
posted by The Bellman at 7:27 AM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by The Bellman at 7:27 AM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Oh, nice! I just bought JSR on Steam for $2.50 during the last sale. I mean, it's $5 normally -- so if anyone is looking to play the original, with decent controller support and HD graphics, you should check it out!
Great soundtrack, except for that one song which is nothing but yelling...AH BAHP BAH BAH...AH BAH BAH [start > settings > bgm to zero -> start..ahhhh]
posted by spbb at 8:46 AM on February 8, 2016
Great soundtrack, except for that one song which is nothing but yelling...AH BAHP BAH BAH...AH BAH BAH [start > settings > bgm to zero -> start..ahhhh]
posted by spbb at 8:46 AM on February 8, 2016
I wrote to DJ Professor K about the voice clips and donations, they replied:
I just might! Right now I need to make the audio of the notifications match the volume set by the user.posted by spbb at 9:06 AM on February 8, 2016
There is a button with a heart. You can get a poster or use the same link to make a donation. We use it toward bandwidth because of how much data listeners are using. Keeps the site up!
So not too long ago I broke out the Dreamcast and played some JGR/JSR.
And now I can listen to this while I work. Awesome.
posted by -1 at 9:31 AM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
And now I can listen to this while I work. Awesome.
posted by -1 at 9:31 AM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
This is wonderful!
I don't suppose there's a stream link to this that one could play via iTunes? ('Cause, home audio n' stuff) I dug around the site source code and couldn't dig up anything obvious.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:58 AM on February 8, 2016
I don't suppose there's a stream link to this that one could play via iTunes? ('Cause, home audio n' stuff) I dug around the site source code and couldn't dig up anything obvious.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:58 AM on February 8, 2016
Spotify sadly doesn't have the full soundtrack, but they do have Hideki Naganuma's tracks from JSR and JSRF (including THE CONCEPT OF LOVE)
posted by GenericUser at 12:24 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by GenericUser at 12:24 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Every so often I'll say to my kids, "Will you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!" And chuckle to myself. They have no idea what I'm talking about. That happens with a lot of stuff.
posted by Otis at 12:31 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Otis at 12:31 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
oh and i'll just leave this link here
i mean if you really want the soundtracks you should totally buy them but it's gonna get pricey
posted by egypturnash at 2:56 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
i mean if you really want the soundtracks you should totally buy them but it's gonna get pricey
posted by egypturnash at 2:56 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Awesome, gonna bop along to this while I check out the new cookie clicker update (sorry). It's really interesting that I keep hearing vague snatches of Sonic Rush music, ideas and samples that they've developed and reused.
That's another great soundtrack if you haven't played the game, by the way. I believe it was primarily Hideki Naganuma with remixes by Teruhiko Nakagawa for when you're playing as the second protagonist, it's a cool effect.
posted by lucidium at 5:41 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
That's another great soundtrack if you haven't played the game, by the way. I believe it was primarily Hideki Naganuma with remixes by Teruhiko Nakagawa for when you're playing as the second protagonist, it's a cool effect.
posted by lucidium at 5:41 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
Yeah! The Hideki Naganuma soundtrack for Sonic Rush was arguably the single best (only good?) thing to come out of the Sonic franchise in the past twenty years.
posted by DoctorFedora at 5:47 PM on February 8, 2016
posted by DoctorFedora at 5:47 PM on February 8, 2016
There's actually a cookie clicker update??
posted by JHarris at 8:15 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 8:15 PM on February 8, 2016 [1 favorite]
rebent > what genre is this?
bongo_x > Jet Set Radio. (Jet Grind Radio for us here in North America.) As far as I’m concerned that is the genre.
Shibuya-Kei. Turntablism. Hip-hop. With a little j-punk and metal thrown in now and then for seasoning.
posted by egypturnash at 1:58 PM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
bongo_x > Jet Set Radio. (Jet Grind Radio for us here in North America.) As far as I’m concerned that is the genre.
Shibuya-Kei. Turntablism. Hip-hop. With a little j-punk and metal thrown in now and then for seasoning.
posted by egypturnash at 1:58 PM on February 9, 2016 [1 favorite]
A+
posted by radiosilents at 6:53 AM on February 12, 2016
posted by radiosilents at 6:53 AM on February 12, 2016
Sega just made the PC port free as part of a promotion.
posted by GenericUser at 4:31 AM on February 17, 2016
posted by GenericUser at 4:31 AM on February 17, 2016
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